The title of Justin Simien's provoca-comedy on its own hints at the tone we should expect from his award-winning chucklefest. Dear White People has already cleaned up on the festival circuit. After nabbing the Sundance Special Jury Award for Breakthrough Talent, the movie is making its way to the masses this month and today, a brand new red-band trailer has arrived to get you in the mood for a laugh in what's normally a horror-infested month.
In what's a most unprecedented spot of news, it turns out that the final Maze Runner movie will be just that - one movie. Not two. Speaking to Digital Spy on the status of the sequel, which is gathering pre-production steam, director Wes Ball told the outlet that there's no chance that the final instalment will be sliced in two.
"From the beginning when I started writing it, I knew very much that I wanted to make it a very contained story about two people in one room," says director Peter Sattler in the latest featurette for prison drama Camp X-Ray. "And not try and make it as this grandiose epic about Guantanamo Bay, and instead focus on the small story between two characters."
If you like your vampire-werewolf action to conform to the highest calibre of cheese, then look no further. The first two trailers for wolf-romp, Wolves, have arrived with a distinct whiff of the finest Roquefort.
Lionsgate might be missing the guaranteed teen-bait tribulations of The Twilight Saga, but they're still on track to make millions of young girls uncontrollably weep with their adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' The Choice. As is often the case with the author's tearjerking tales of woe, the cast are all devastatingly attractive. This week alone we've heard news that Benjamin Walker (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter) was attached, and this morning Smallville hunk Tom Welling signed on. In a matter of hours we've now learned that True Detective's Alexandra Daddario will be joining the movie.
We've waited a long, LONG time for official word on anything Ghostbusters related, and now we've got it. THR reports that The Heat scribe, Katie Dippold, has signed on to co-write the script for the upcoming reboot.
With a deadly designer drug at the centre of upcoming thriller, Urge, there's a steady stream of talent coming aboard who may succumb to its effects. The latest addition to the cast is That '70s Show star Danny Masterson.
Looks like Scarlett Johansson will be switching out the Black Widow's restrictive wardrobe for turn-of-the-century high society fashions. The Avengers actress has signed on to star in Sony Pictures limited series TV adaptation, The Custom Of The Country.
The latest trend that's spreading through TV-land like clap at a summer camp is the 'nostalgia movie revival'. If your favourite comedy was released sometime in the 80s, there's a strong chance you're about to see it rebooted beyond recognition. As we've witnessed the era of the unwanted sequel, the disastrous remake, and the pointless reboot, we're now well into a new season of reinvention. Movies are now considered ripe fruit for the plucking as TV networks are snapping up rights to the popular features of yesteryear like they're going out of style. Next up on the chopping block is, John Hughes' cult classic, Uncle Buck.
